Fearing any adverse order on the dalit memorial park at Noida, near the national capital, the Mayawati government on Friday readily agreed to the Supreme Court proposal to reduce its covering area to 35 per cent and develop the remaining 65 per cent as forest by a massive re-plantation to compensate axing of nearly 6,000 trees.

Even as a pending paternity suit against former Andhra Pradesh governor N.D. Tiwari had thrown up the question on DNA test to determine the paternity in such disputes, the Supreme Court in an important judgment ruled against using the technology, saying it will have serious social consequences for any child whose paternity is in question.

As a battery of top lawyers of the country continued their attack on the HRD ministry for cancelling the recognition of 44 deemed universities in the Supreme Court, one of them on Wednesday tried to link the ministry’s decision to an attempt by a “powerful political class” to allow foreign universities to set foot in India.

In a shocking case of wiping the entire family of their neighbour in the name of “saving their honour” the Supreme Court has awarded rigorous life sentence to three accused from Uttar Pradesh, including the father of a girl who was at the centre of the whole controversy even as the top court said they actually deserved death penalty.

The Supreme Court has come down heavily on the high courts for interfering in debt recovery cases of nationalised banks and other public sector financial institutions’ through writ jurisdiction and the debt recovery tribunals for their failure to expedite the recoveries of non-performing assets.

The Centre on Monday in the Supreme Court said clear no to giving permanent commission to women officers of Indian Army in “combat” and other tough services but yielded to give the benefit to them with retrospective effect in the judicial and education service.

Facing intense public criticism for “mishandling” the Bhopal gas tragedy case, the CBI on Monday finally filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court for restoration of the charge of “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” against the UCIL top brass, who got away with a lighter punishment of two years despite causing the death of over 5,295 innocent people and permanent multiple ailment to 5.68 lakh others.

In a case of alleged “loss of faith” against some trustees of Mumbai’s famous Lilavati Hospital, the payment of Rs 3 crore to a battery of top lawyers from the trust accounts proved costly for them wi

Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia on Saturday gave altogether a new dimension to the much debated huge pendency of cases with the judiciary, saying in real term the arrear of old cases was only a little over one crore not three crore forcing President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil to call for review of the figure.

The CBI on Friday filed a status report in the Supreme Court on the progress of investigation in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case in a “sealed cover” but the sources indicated that it might spell more trouble to the Narendera Modi government and even some politicians in Rajasthan.